Thanks for this 11.2 LiveDVD, released on my birthday! What a birthday present, gnome 3 here I come.
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Question: Is there an official guideline for installing a stage4/livedvd?

I'd like to install the entire LiveDVD onto my base system....
....is it really as easy as just copying all the files?

The LiveDVD may have gcc 4.5, but if you were to go install gentoo with it, you'd be back to stable, gcc-4.4, two version behind.

My computer will probably be dead of old age before Gentoo catches up unmasking gcc 4.6, as 4.5 isn't even marked stable yet.

When I first discovered Gentoo (almost 10 years ago),
I switched to it because it was bleeding edge and built for my system, yet stable too.
An Intel i7 needs gcc 4.6 for full advantage of cpu, and improved multi-threading in >=gcc-4.6
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FYI: I've successful emerge -e system, with gcc 4.6 on an Intel i7 950, with -02 "-fenable-multi-threading". I see no reason why 4.6 is hard masked.

Request to Developers: Bring back stage1 install, so us users can run gcc 4.6 without having remerge packages 2 & 3 times.

You can reboot after this and the system will start from HDD and autologin with guest account to the KDE environment.
There might be some details that need some ironing.
This is just quick take on this while listening on a long conf call

enjoy.

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Hmm... I started GNOME (in a kvm, I guess I'm in fallback mode), and when I click on any of the folders in the Places menu, it starts qmmp _________________“And even in authoritarian countries, information networks are helping people discover new facts and making governments more accountable.”– Hillary Clinton, Jan. 21, 2010

However I have some questions. I also worry, just as awalp, about what will happen if one does an emerge -avuDNt world on the live dvd, alot of complaints on the masks? Or is the package.keywords/.mask/.unmask etc designed to have as little conflicts as possible?

I also wonder, since I would like to use this liveDVD as a liveUSB, and then it would be nice if one could update to the next release of the liveDVD. Will there be support for this, and if so, will I then get a new set of package.keywords/.mask/.unmask files and just run an update?

How do I get root access on the live DVD? When I go to a terminal window and type "su -" I get a password prompt. Leaving it blank gets me an authentication failure. Typing "passwd" in a terminal window gives me a prompt asking for the current root password. What is the current root password? The live DVD is totally useless without root access. I can't even partition my hard disk to install Gentoo Linux. The minimal install Gentoo CD doesn't make me enter a root password. It just logs me in as root from the beginning. Unfortunately, the minimal CD doesn't support my wireless network adapter like the live DVD does. HELP?

* Writable filesystems using AUFS so you can emerge new packages!
* Persistancy for $HOME is available; press F9 for more info!

So I pressed F9, but nothing happend. I tried Firefox 3.6.17 and Konqueror 4.7.0. What browser supports this "F9 for more info"?

Seriously:
Thanks! I was glad to see that there is a new Live DVD, since I bought myself a AMD Fusion system and need a Live DVD using the latest kernel and Radeon drivers. I will check it out this evening.

You have two ways to use persistancy for $HOME
1) After you have dd the Gentoo liveUSB image to your device, use fdisk to create
a secondary partition, then format this partition and include a blank file called
"persistence-mode".
2) Same as above but filename can reside on a separate device. First method is
the recommended way.

Persistance mode requires atleast 42M of space. You can increase the size of the
filesystem image created by the script with "persistence_mb=xxx"

When I have to mount the cdrom I see this message :
mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sr0 is mounted on /newroot/mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sr0 is mounted on /newroot/mnt/cdrom

and the following step (cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/gentoo /boot/kernel) gives this message :

Then you end up with a gentoo install, that has tons of mismatched compiled files and missing linkages, I noticed most of the LiveDVD was compiled with gcc 4.6.1, while only gcc 4.5.2 is installed, making random emerges fail.
-- Though this only happened when I was chrooted, it worked fine when booted. weird.

When I have to mount the cdrom I see this message :
mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sr0 is mounted on /newroot/mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/sr0 already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sr0 is mounted on /newroot/mnt/cdrom

and the following step (cp /mnt/cdrom/boot/gentoo /boot/kernel) gives this message :

cp: cannot stat `/mnt/cdrom/boot/gentoo': No such file or directory

How to solve this ?

Roelof

You don't need to mount the livedvd since it's already mounted once you are booted into it. If you want to use the packages on the livedvd to rapidly install Gentoo, then you should follow this guide http://tinyurl.com/65kz47g

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The Image doesn't need to be converted for USB booting as it's already a hybrid image which can either be burned to DVD or DD/CAT to a removable device i.e usb stick or hdd

I understand this, and successfully using Live on DVD and on USB. My problem is that I have no access to liveDVD contents. And if I want to include recent stage in the DVD root - I could not access it!
The only right way seems to go - with USB drive splited in two partitions, with DVD converted (not dd, as this will not work) onto the first and stage/snapshot/distfiles going onto second.

Update: or make use of persistence mode, which seems to be the only supported way to have own files on media

The Image doesn't need to be converted for USB booting as it's already a hybrid image which can either be burned to DVD or DD/CAT to a removable device i.e usb stick or hdd

I understand this, and successfully using Live on DVD and on USB. My problem is that I have no access to liveDVD contents. And if I want to include recent stage in the DVD root - I could not access it!
The only right way seems to go - with USB drive splited in two partitions, with DVD converted (not dd, as this will not work) onto the first and stage/snapshot/distfiles going onto second.

Update: or make use of persistence mode, which seems to be the only supported way to have own files on media

While I found out that "da" was missing fron the LINGUAS environment variable in /etc/make.conf, I decided to remake the liveDVD.

No problems mounting the DVD, and the image.squashfs filesytem, copying the files from here, set up a chrooted environment for re-emerging with the updated LINGUAS.
I also managed to make a new version of image.squashfs, and got made a new iso image, which I can loop mount without any problems, and also loop mount the inlined image.squashfs filesytem, but when I try to boot the it does not work.